{"product_id":"9781941209189","title":"Hotel Worthy","description":"Check into Hotel Worthy, Valerie Nieman's new book of poems, and you'll never want to leave. There abides in its pages an uncanny past wrought into poems that spring from a memory - from a vast, liturgical acumen - that unites the dead with the living, restores the abandoned, returns the missing. Nieman knows the names of things, how those things piece together, how they sunder; and, while she refuses to lie, her truths are exquisite. This is a startling book. The language - its lyric nuance, its plaintive harmonies, its ceremonial beauty - is unforgettable. In the words of the poet, \"Each blow of wood on wood \/ sets ripples on the water: \/ deo gratias, deo gratias.\"Deo gratias indeed - for Hotel Worthy. -Joseph Bathanti, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina","brand":"Press 53","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047937949936,"sku":"9781941209189","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941209189_p0.jpg?v=1763755306","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941209189","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}